First launched in 2005, Colorcoat Prisma® pre-finished steel has earned a trusted and reliable reputation across the industry. Committed to delivering high-quality, high-performance products and in line with market feedback, Tata Steel has refreshed the collection to include some re-imagined shades inspired by the original ‘Elements’, which will carefully be transitioned over a period of time. The refreshed ‘Seren’ range features a new selection of colours, including beautiful bronze tones, each offering a timeless, strong aesthetic. Included in the palette is Seren Oren, Seren Aurum, Seren Champagne, Seren Titanium and Seren Mirage.

With extensive experience of producing the three-layer Colorcoat Prisma® product, all new Seren colours are now a nominal 65 microns as standard, facilitating a more streamlined and consolidated product offering. Combined with the advanced three-layer technology and the benefits of strength, performance and reliability, Colorcoat Prisma® is ideal for wall and roof applications. In addition, the Textured offering, launched a few years ago, is an ideal robust roofing product, due to being an overall thicker product at a nominal 70 microns.

The special new Seren colours also means that the Confidex® Guarantee, the most comprehensive guarantee in Europe from Tata Steel, can now be simplified and in addition - the roof durations for all colours have extended from up to 35 years to up to 40 years.

Alongside the introduction of the new Seren shades, architects and specifiers can benefit from even greater design freedom and flexibility with the relaunched Colorcoat Prisma® collection. While the standard clearcoat is supplied across the full Colorcoat Prisma® metallic and solid colour range, a Sparkle option is also available, subject to a minimum order quantity.

Supporting further aesthetic appeal, the product can also offer brighter and heavily pigmented solid shades through the bespoke colour matching service, also subject to a minimum order quantity - Repertoire®.

Speaking about the updated collection, Lindsay Andrews Colorcoat® Marketing Manager at Tata Steel says: “We are extremely excited to introduce the refresh of Colorcoat Prisma®, where strength and performance meet precision, which is demonstrated in the new colour additions and the extended guarantee for roof applications. The new and enhanced colour palette of rich metallic tones, alongside the extensive clearcoat options, is our way of continuing to meet the market demands and emerging trends.

“Additionally, we are looking to include a further option in a limited range of Colorcoat Prisma® colours, which can offer an improved Solar Reflective Index (SRI) rating. We recognise that the environmental demands on building projects are increasing and that for hotter climates the challenge of cooling building interiors is more prevalent. 
Four colours—Cream, Hamlet, Oyster and Anthracite—could be supplied with an improved Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) rating compared to the standard versions of the shades, which could provide benefits in use”

Colorcoat Prisma® delivers the highest level of protection against UV and corrosion as Ruv5 and RC5+ according to EN 10169, demonstrating long term colour and gloss retention, making it the ideal choice for commercial, retail, warehouse and public sector buildings that are truly built to last. Likewise, the Confidex® Guarantee has been curated with simplicity in mind, offered directly to the building owner - avoiding the challenge of navigating complex supply chains in the unlikely event of a coating failure – and includes the use of Photovoltaic (PV) frame modules with no reduction in duration for doing so.

Colorcoat Prisma® is the next generation of pre-finished steel, available through our supply chain partners and Colorcoat® accredited distributors. This product is the most tested pre-finished steel in its class and sets the standard for performance and innovation, being able to withstand the harshest conditions without sacrificing aesthetic appeal.